"<p>"This is an empirically rich and methodologically interesting ethnography that would be a valuable addition to scholarly literature in anthropology, urban studies and political ecology."</p>" — Tani Sebro, Cal Poly Humboldt

"<p>"This is a well-researched and fine-grained ethnography on Cuenca, Ecuador. I applaud Rume’s sharp, critical and careful ethnographic analysis that brings together divergent aspects of sustainable urbanism in a neat way under updated understandings of multiple modernities."</p>" — Julie Gamble, Vanderbilt University

Sam Rumé is currently a Juan de la Cierva fellow at the University of Barcelona and has previously received a Research Ireland Postdoctoral Award to complete this book manuscript. His work on urban infrastructures, mobilities and (cosmo)politics in Ecuador has been published in journals including American Ethnologist, Social Analysis and Ethnography.

Figures
Acknowledgements
Maps
Introduction

Part I Sustainability and Modernity
Chapter 1. Stories of Sustainability
Chapter 2. Between Progress and Recovery

Part II Culture and its Others
Chapter 3. Chaos in Athens
Chapter 4. Pragmatics of Sustainment

Part III Assembling Sustainability
Chapter 5. (Un)making the Cosmogram
Chapter 6. Minding the Gaps

Part IV Sustaining (oneself in) Place
Chapter 7. Sustaining Attachments
Chapter 8. The Tactical City

Conclusion
Reference
Index